Christopher Hassan

Chris is a former hotel manager from Boston currently living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with his wife, daughter, and dog. Chris is always on the hunt for great travel deals and experiences to share with his friends, family, and readers.

About Chris

Chris is a former hotel manager from Boston currently living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with his wife, daughter, and dog. Chris is always on the hunt for great travel deals and experiences to share with his friends, family, and readers.

Park Hyatt New York The Park Hyatt New York is one of the most desirable properties in the world, especially when you consider that you can redeem points to stay there. Whether it be the prestigious 57th Street address, Central Park views, luxurious accommodations, or just the fact that an average night can cost over […]

Real Redemptions Caline and I recently sat down with Erin from UpgradedPoints.com to talk about some of our favorite miles and point redemptions. You don’t have to twist our arm too hard to get us to talk about points, so we had a good time reliving our trip to London! If you want the full […]

Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro Caline and I recently took a staycation at the new Grand Hyatt Rio. We used our expiring Category 4 free night from our Chase Hyatt card to book a basic room and then paid cash to upgrade to a suite. Even without the upgrade, the Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro […]

British Airways 787 Dreamliner: Believe it or not, but this was our first trip on a British Airways 787 Dreamliner, and we were pretty excited about it! Ok, it was mostly me, but Caline indulged me a bit. Most of our flights are on American, and they don’t fly many 787s to Brazil. I believe at the […]

Family Trip To London Although we are fresh off of a free, spontaneous, trip to London (read about that here), I have been trying to put together a little video from our trip back in July! We had spent a year planning our first family trip to London, so it was only fitting that the […]

Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel Boston In what has become an annual tradition of late, we visited the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel Boston on Christmas Eve eve. My Dad and Rebecca have been staying there for a night or two around Christmas to make it easier to see family in Massachusetts – as well as enjoy the […]

Admirals Club Miami: Miami has never been one of our preferred airports. When flying from Brazil, we like to fly to New York so that the flight to Boston is quicker (and on an A321!). However, there are times when flying through Miami make the most sense for us…you know, like when we went to […]